POLAND, N.Y. — Sauquoit Valley’s Nick Spina set the individual pace Saturday and led the Indians to a team title at the Center State Conference championship meet.

Spina ran the hilly 2.95-mile Russia Town Park course in 16:21.3 and finished 13 seconds ahead of Holland Patent’s Barrett Celecki, the runner-up. The league meet victory was the third in a row for Spina who also placed first in Oriskany last year and Ilion two years ago. The Indians won the league title back after finishing second behind Adirondack last fall.

Sauquoit Valley’s five scoring runners were all among the top 19 finishers in a field of 109 runners and 14 full teams. The Indians’ team score was 53 with Adirondack (67) second and Holland Patent (82) third.

Sauquoit Valley, Holland Patent, Adirondack and Clinton each had two of the top 10 finishers. Eric Gleba of Sauquoit Valley finished seventh, Holland Patent’s Bryce Zayachek was sixth, Clinton’s Jack Yaworsky and Jon Kulpa finished third and 10th, and Adirondack’s Connor Hrynuk and Dallas Robinson were fifth and ninth. Central Valley Academy’s Nick Bandel was the fourth-place finisher and Mike Bennett of New York Mills ran eighth.

Sauquoit Valley also won the modified and junior varsity team competitions. Josh Brunet of Holland Patent win the junior varsity race with a time of 19:26.3; Sauquoit Valley had the next five finishers. Stone Lutz of Adirondack won the 1.5-mile modified race in 8:55.5.